Rudy Giuliani's Mancrush On Putin

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Rudy Giuliani remains impatient with democracy, possibly because he is so demonstrably bad at it. So he has spent the time since becoming the Terry Sanford of Republican electoral politics bemoaning the fact that actual elected presidents can't snap their fingers and make the world jump through a hoop.

GIULIANI: Putin decides what he wants to do and he does it in half a day, right? He decided he had to go to their parliament. He went to their parliament. He got permission in 15 minutes.

CAVUTO: Well, that was kind of like perfunctory.

GIULIANI: But he makes a decision and he executes it, quickly. Then everybody reacts. That's what you call a leader. President Obama, he's got to think about it. He's got to go over it again. He's got to talk to more people about it.

Sooner or later, Republicans are going to have to make up their minds whether Vladimir Putin is the new Stalin, or whether he's just the guy they all hope asks them to prom.